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European Roots on American Culture
Summary: Notes and an outline about European roots and their influence on American culture.
NOTES on :EUROPEAN ROOTS OF AMERICAN CULTURE
Begins with my own, (American Studies) and our nation's education.
- years of study, led by 20 years of different type of study
- Seen only from the inside out
- Idea of uniqueness
- Mistakes--such as multiculturalism, isolationism, (anecdote about Kyle and map of Euope --more than 25 countries-- in school)
- My students always ask: WHY haven't we heard this before"? And why do my foreign students actually make better grades in AM. History than do natives?
- Then also the BIAS against Colonial History....
b. Can we teach WWII even now"
THREE AREAS: Spain in the New World, England, and the West Indies.
SPAIN-- after all, it was the FIRST (not forgetting the Basques, St.
Brendan, and the Norse Vikings)
SPAIN--almost invisible to Americans--because we see Hispanic culture through the lens of Latin America. We do not teach Castilano in...
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